Missionary cosmopolitanism in nineteenth-century British literature / Winter Jade Werner.

Author: Werner, Winter Jade, author.

ImprintColumbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2020]

Imprint2020

Descriptionxi, 210 pages ; 24 cm.

Note:Introduction: the only true cosmopolite -- The cosmopolitan idea in early nineteenth-century missionary societies -- Robert Southey and the case for Christian colonialism -- Universal kinship and Jane Eyre -- The missionary, Luxima, and the forging of a post-"mutiny" cosmopolitanism -- Coda: The afterlives of missionary cosmopolitanism.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-199) and index.

Note:"Examines the effects of missionary evangelicalism on cosmopolitanism through the nineteenth-century novel, including works such as Charlotte Brontė's Jane Eyre, Charles Dickens's Bleak House, and lesser-known works by Robert Southey and Sydney Owenson."-- Provided by publisher.

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